Were in a little bit of a break. A few showers starting to pop up behind that main push of rain thats moving now into southern new england and we have to keep annoy on this line of storms push through portions of the ohio valley. That will generally weaken overnight, but tomorrow morning, cant rule out a shower or thunderstorm for your christmas eve. Storm scan3 showing a few scattered showers moving into chester county, back into delaware. Nothing as heavy as what we saw earlier tonight. But as we mentioned temperatures on their way up. So what to expect through the next couple of hours. Still scattered showers until about midnight. Overnight we try to clear it out but tomorrow well have to watch for a stray shower or thunderstorm and temperatures again rising and Holding Steady through the night. We hit a high of 70 degrees just last hour. Even now its 69 degrees that is a record breaker for your wednesday and weve got at least three more records to challenge before the end of the Ch
Drenching downpours and a high, scaled down wardrobe and umbrellas required, but shorts optional. It is wednesday night and jim is off, im brian taff. A rainy, foggy extremely warm night. It is not just messing with our concept of winter, tonights weather making for tricky travel. We check in with the skies and roads in a moment, but first cecily tynan is standing by. Another temperature record has fallen. It certainly has. What happened today, a warm front moved through bringing us the soaking rain. It also ushered in a surge of warm air. 70 degrees at 10 00. Stormtracker live double scan showing the steady, soaking rain pushed over new england. We just have a few lingering areas of drizzle here or war, but the warm front part of a much bigger storm system. The warm front awatches to low pressure over canada, and a trailing cold front. That cold front caused an outbreak of Severe Weather which is pretty unusual for december. Two dozen reports of tornadoes in the midwest and deep south
Chester county, and New Castle County now, wilmington about to get hit. Delaware and philadelphia right after that. Atlantic city, rain tapering off. Still hammered by it. That rain will be diminishing within the next 30 minutes. This other very large area not moving very quickly through lancaster county, burkes county, heading toward the redding area. So all of this continues to move toward the northeast. More rain on the way. But at least seeing it taper off a bit down to the south. Temperatures keep going up. 65 degrees in philadelphia. Well see just how warm its going to get and how long with the seven day in a few minutes. To the roads now. Holiday travel rush off it a wet start for drivers out there. Live picture of interstate 95 in wilmington. Aaa believes nearly 47 mlt americans will travel 50 miles or more between now and sunday. Highest total in eight years. Heavy traffic on the garden state highways as well, route 70 a short time ago. Low gas prices one of the major ranges f
Lancaster county that well keep an eye on, heavier rain down by washington. Were not done. Not close to being done with it. Were not done with the temperature climb. Up to 62 degrees in philadelphia. 63 in millville. The record for the day is 66. We could get up there before midnight. Visibles up a little bit now at philly international. A half mile reported at wilmington and it will get more dense as the night goes on as the rain tapers off. Look at these temperatures. Look at the wind and the chance of lightning in the middle of the night. More record warmth. 70s coming up. More on the temperatures and when the next round of rain is coming with the seven day in a few minutes. That rain is taking a toll on roads out there. This is a look at the blue road and darby road in halverford. Mercer county, this is the seen a while ago. 295, route 33 in hamilton township. Traffic not too bad but you can see rain slicked roads here as well. Pretty much everywhere. Delaware, for instance. How th
Wilmington. Expect company if youre headed out there, aaa figures 47 million americans will travel 50 miles or or between today and sunday. That is the highest total in eight years. Heavy traffic on the garden state highways. This is how things looked along route 38 near the cherry hill mall. Low gas prices a reason for uptick in travel. Just about 2 a gallon. George spencer talking to travelers. Live along interstate 76 with more on how people are getting around the rainy rush. Reporter suffice it to say, it has not been an idea travel day as we checked out roads, rails and airport today. 76 here through center city and the vine street expressway one example. Lots of people trying to get out but the weather is not cooperating. The roads were slick and headlights were on as turnpike lit up with Holiday Travelers this afternoon. Many pushed through todays springlike conditions, as they drove, Travis Goforth and his wife heading from South Carolina to south jersey. Thats one of the reaso